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    LDS: Have you checked out Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series? Excellent epic fantasy, and he's Canadian to boot
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    Nope, never heard about it before. I'll wikipedia it when I get home.
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen

    The impressive thing is that Erikson pounded out 10 books in 12 years. And they're ALL good
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    For tonight, my thoughts:

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    Following how the shows have kind of bounced around parts of the book against the timeline of the show, I'm hoping to see Daenerys' boot to the face of Viserys today One of those huge plot points of the book where she starts to completely grasp her position. Also hoping: Arya's training, Cat's voyage, and Ned learning what it's meant to be a King's Hand XD (Sean Bean playing a frustrated and pissed off politician would be hilarious XD)



    So far, been very happy with the series
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    So... review: Ep 3 was much more character driven, and two of the three things I hoped to see were in there. Kinda sad they left out Cat's voyage tho, Ser Roderick on a boat would have been a lovely bit of comedy Arya's training happens in the last few minutes, but still, cool to see the water dance as it starts

    They also did a bit more time jumping with this ep. What took, what, 150-200 pages in the book was dealt with in little over 55 minutes, and a bit out of sequence. Still... very good.
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    Martin officially finished the book April 27, 2011 by delivering the 1500+ page manuscript into the hands of book editor Anne Groell while completing it at her office in New York City.
    Amazing.. I think i will have a book to read this fall.. next winter (I dont buy hardcover)

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    If that's 1500+ pages on a word processor, that's a nearly 2500 page long paperback D: If it's 1500+ preformatted pages for printing, then that's a bit more realistic :P
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    Just started watching this. Only seen 2 episodes. Awesome so far

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    episode 4 had lots of wolves

    We saw summer and ghost, which was good, I was feeling the wolves were a big part of the Stark character development. But I dont think we've ever seen Shaggy yet have we?

    They twisted the story in a few places again, like in the joust, Sansa's told about the hounds face. You dont hear about that until late book 3 I think. It's not horrible, but the series is definately changing how I feel about a few characters. However people like visceries (sp?) are spot on, I hate that little punk and he's barely said anything in 4 episodes.

    Theon Greyjoy actually got some screen time too, but I feel that scene, which if I recall was another made for TV, actually worked better. It shows him as a ward, but also as more of a political prisner. In the book, I felt like he was actually happy being a ward of the Stark's until much later in the series when all hell breaks loose.

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    Originally posted by colsankey
    They twisted the story in a few places again, like in the joust, Sansa's told about the hounds face. You dont hear about that until late book 3 I think. It's not horrible, but the series is definately changing how I feel about a few characters. However people like visceries (sp?) are spot on, I hate that little punk and he's barely said anything in 4 episodes.
    I'm reading book 1 right now (before I watch the show), and she does indeed find out in book 1.
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    I'll have to re-read that... I blew through books 1-3 right before the series started and honestly thought he told Sansa himself while drunk, not littlefinger. Re-read time I guess.

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    I think we might be talking about different things.. Are you talking about how he got his face like that? I haven't gotten to the joust yet. I'll let you know lol
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    I'm talking about in epi 4, there's a brief snippet where littlefinger tells Sansa about the hound's face and how he was burned.

    I thought that occured much later in the books, but maybe I'm wrong.

    Part of the problem is with reading the better part of 4 books in a 8 day stretch, the story kind of gels and I had a better overall feel for the story again, but some of the details like when exactly it happened got lost along the way.

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    In book 1, it is the Hound himself that tells Sansa that his brother pushed his face against a brazier when he was younger. He told her after Joffrey dismissed her at the feast, and ordered the Hound to escort Sansa back to the keep, the night after the first day of the tournament. It happens right after the scene where Robert gets buttfuckingly drunk and exclaims his intention to compete in the melee.
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    the guy they cast as Littlefinger is perfect, been liking his performance.. I had thought Varys had a lot more of a role to play by this point in the story. He really hasn't been getting much screen time at all. Gregor Clegane wasn't huge enough imo he's supposed to be eight feet tall but oh wells.. I've actually been enjoying the new scenes added to the show. The one with Jaime outside King Robert's door standing guard was pretty good, and the one with Theon was really good. Nice foreshadowing there.. in the book he did some pretty crazy shit that seemed very out of left field, which is unfortunate considering the consequences his actions had

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    so I'm only half retarded I was sure it was the hound, I just lost where in time he talked about it. But right after the feast seems right.

    Totally agree about Theon, I said as much above, but the book really didn't portray him in the same light early on as the TV show. The TV scene with Theon and Tyrion makes much more sense for the following events, allthough in Martin's defense, he wrote the books so many years apart it's understandable if with all the character development he's done the odd character gets a little glossed over and by the time book 2's done and 3s worked on, it's a little late to revisit book 1.

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    http://ca.kotaku.com/5800966/winter-...ehold/gallery/

    Some of those are fucking EPIC covers o_O
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    Anyone else catch the latest episode yesterday? Best yet IMO.

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    Gonna watch it tomorrow.

    I love HBO haha.

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    Ep 5 seemed to be one of those "steamroller" episodes, ie where they plowed through 200 pages of the book in one episode. Still, it was put together rather well, so it made logical, progressive sense. Having Martin as an executive producer seems to be helping with making sure everything makes sense
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